"When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children."

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Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

Ann Hood

#Children Quotes #Years Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.”
“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”

Source : Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.”
“Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.”

Source : Jeff Galloway (1984). “Galloway's Book on Running”
“Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere.”
“I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.”

Source : Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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